A general comment on the SOA RA

["Lublinsky, Boris" <boris.lublinsky@navteq.com>]

I have finally finished reading and realized where I had the biggest
issue with this.
The document equates SOA (for the main part) with a complex distributed
system, leaving completely aside Business/IT alignment nature of SOA.
Unless we stipulate from the very beginning, that services are
representation of well-defined business artifacts, there is no
difference between SOA and, for example, The Web. I would think that Web
is even more complex. 
So, in my mind,

"SOA can be defined as an architectural style promoting the concept of
business-aligned enterprise service as the fundamental unit of
designing, building, and composing enterprise business solutions.
Multiple patterns, defining design, implementations, and deployment of
the SOA solutions, complete this style."
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/architecture/library/ar-soastyle/ 

Similar definitions can be also find at:
http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa/doc.tpl?gdid=10632  and indirectly
at http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2008_11/column6/index.html 

Please, let me know if this makes sense?

If it does, then the document lacks a few other things that can be
easily added. But lets first agree on this slight change of a viewpoint.

Boris 


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